The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx’ most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat together with the bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same and the tactics that such conditions dictate. (Excerpt from Preface)

Marx’s study of the events leading to the coup d’etat of "Napolean the Little" on December 2, 1851, written within a few weeks of the coup, is one of the first works by Marx in which he states his theory of history. [Facsimile reprint edition.]